In The Age Of Fiberglass I’m Searching For A Gem

like it is supposed to feel jarring and insane. it is supposed to feel like lestat has been violently submerged in modern young people trends and culture and is now repeating all the new words he learned like a beautiful fresh baby. but because the book is from 1985, all I think is oh interesting huh I didn’t know that slang term even originated in the 80s how vintage how retro how lestat wow he’s so embarrassing aw aw so cute.

the failure(s); the many loves of the vampire lestat

After the first Coelacanth specimen was discovered in east Africa (1938) after its 65 million year absence, there was a mad hunt to find a second one. Fliers like this one were posted up and down the coast in the 1940s and 1950s in search of any fish that might have been caught by a local fisherman. However, it took until 1952 for this reward to be claimed and the second Coelacanth was brought to light.

a health policy paper has been published saying the name is officially updated to polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome (PMOS)

polyendocrine= multiple endocrine factors

metabolic = affecting/affected by metabolism

ovarian = from the ovaries

essentially, instead of using the symptomatic term (many people with PMOS do not develop cysts) the new term widens the diagnostic area and makes it easier to diagnose, treat, and do research on people with PMOS (even atypical types, such as no cysts).

it may seem like a waste of time to change a name instead of focusing on research, but for a lot of medical professionals a name can be associated with a hard set collection of symptoms, so the name needs to change to acknowledge that the disorder is not well understood and has a broader, subtler, and often missed set of symptoms. for example ADD is considered an antiquated/unused term, and now comes under the ADHD umbrella. in healthcare names and terminology changes all the time, and this is a positive change. your local healthcare professional may not know about this unless theyre really up on the news though!

in case you want to read about the name change process that was published in the Lancet (one of the most impactful and well respected medical journals):

EVNautilus- famous for such classic hits as "a bunch of scientists make fun of an octopus" and "scientist gets to watch her favorite animal get one-shotted by an anemone".